Application of Grey System Theory in Evaluating Innovative Environment for an Industrial Cluster

Evaluation on an industrial cluster is the key link from theory to practice. So based on the in-depth analysis of the innovative environment for an industrial cluster, an evaluation index system was setted-up for the innovative environment on which most of the influencing factors are characterized with grey, fuzzy and hard to quantify in terms of technical economy. Therefore, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and the theory of grey system is adaptable to those systems which are hard to quantify accurately for developing models were introduced in to set up a comprehensive evaluation model for the grey hierarchy in an innovative environment for an industrial cluster. Then the relevant evaluation indices were obtained and an example is given to verify the result of evaluation.